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Hurd deserves a lot of credit for the job he's done since he replaced Carly Fiorina in early 2005, said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. At the time, HP seemed to be in trouble as earnings were below expectations and Fiorina butted heads with the board of directors...

With Kindle's white design, Amazon clearly worked from earlier versions of Apple's iPod, Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "They probably should have focused more on what Apple is building now, since the market has moved aw...

"Spider is the beginning of a response to Intel's strong execution with Penryn, their latest offerings," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "What AMD is doing is creating a platform -- one that should have been obvious -- that blends graphics performance and processor performance to create more overall performance at a given price."

This week ends with one of the most important days of the year. It's called "Black Friday," and it could decide the future of a lot of battles and tell us whether this will be a good or bad season economically ...

However, while the Wii may have more consoles on store shelves now than it did immediately following its launch, the Wii is "manufacturing constrained," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. Demand is high -- its US$249 price, at least $50 less than its competitors -- continues to be a huge draw...

There's a security and management gap in the two- to five-computer networking space, both in small businesses and home networks, Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. Windows Live OneCare aims to fill that gap "One of the things that survey ...

Financial incentives do seem to work, and will likely encourage developers "to put on their creativity hats and come up with some ideas," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, agreed "Ten million is enough to get some folks coding, and clearly th...

The move is a reminder that Microsoft is "very serious" about becoming a player in the portable music space "and continues to invest heavily in it," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times The fact that Musiwave is based in Paris and has many Euro...

Probably the biggest announcement last week was Google's entry into the cell phone space. Regardless of whether it is successful or not, the entry will likely change dramatically what we will be using, even in the PC space, in a few years ...

"This doesn't look good for WiMax, as it makes it look like Sprint is walking away from the entire thing because they need to focus on its core business, which has been under-performing of late," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "This will slow the rollout of WiMax significantly in the U.S. and will cause more to question whether it will ever reach the saturation point it needs to be successful. Intel is a big backer of this and may need to up their investment now if they want to assure WiMax comes to be."

Although Clear Channel's SEC report insists nothing has occurred that could be construed as a breach of contract, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle said he wonders whether something turned up during the past six months "I have hard time believing Providence is going ...

In addition to using the media-rich context of MySpace, where users fully expect to launch videos and players, the attack also exploits the trust on which many social networking sites are built, Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

"These are important initial offerings for the company because the showcase Lenovo breaking out from underneath IBM's umbrella and starting to establish themselves as a fully independent complete solutions provider in the hardware space," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group...

Vectrix USA. The world's first fuel cell/electric hybrid scooter has arrived. The environmentally sound high-end electric motorscooter was the recipient of last year's Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation and Leadership of the Year Award. "This is actually a serious ride," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at technology consulting firm Enderle Group. "They just started selling them in San Francisco." The dashboard features a sophisticated instrument pod that displays speed, odometer, trip mileage, time, estimated range, system status, battery status and charging status on an advanced and easy to read LCD (liquid crystal display) and analog display. The best part? Its environmentally sound: The Vectrix scooter utilizes innovative zero-emission technology. The worst part? This bike will run about $11,000.

Saturation is already fairly high in the MP3 category, but there's a good chance accessories for the devices could be hot as well, Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "A lot of companies are coming to market really aggressively with accessories for use with the iPod or other MP3 players -- these could be a kind of sleeper gift this year."

I've been covering the Leopard launch for the last three weeks and will now wrap it up. There have been some issues with the new OS, but nothing critical, and it appears to be a near-flawless launch ...

This time around could be worse for Take-Two, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's worse because the general media has picked this up and it's an election window," he told TechNewsWorld. "This is an easy topic to talk about if you don't want t...

"Price can make a huge difference in a technology area like this. The HD DVD players at $100 are actually a good value for their DVD content and have competitive -- to regular DVD players with up-conversion -- performance," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

LucasArts brings its overall focus on reality and creating very beautiful games with its visual expertise, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. BioWare, meanwhile, tells great stories and can take a good idea and weave it into something that is compelling and powerful...

Because the accounting issue took so long to play out, the types of dramatic head-rolling that other companies have used to clean house became unnecessary at Dell, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "The CFO and the CEO from that time period ...